Locals don’t benefit from avocado business in Chile; a peasant in Petorca doesn't have water to irrigate plants, raise animals; the river is dry and life is unbearable, Alexander Panez Pinto, Modatima, told RT.
Untreated wastewater from cities is used to irrigate 50 percent more farmland worldwide than previously thought, leaving some 885 million people exposed to the risk of diseases, including diarrhea and cholera, a study said on Wednesday.
Jordan signed a 30 million euros soft loan agreement with the German
Development Bank to finance water projects, the state-run Petra news
agency reported.
About 60 percent of underground water in China, and one-third of its
surface water, have been rated unfit for human contact last year,
according to the environment ministry in Beijing.
By Christina Larson, Science Insider BEIJING—Glaciers in China that are a critical source of water for drinking and irrigation in India are receding fast, according to a new comprehensive inventory. In the short term, retreating glaciers may release greater meltwater, “but it will be exhausted when glaciers disappear under a continuous warming,” says Liu Shiyin, who led the survey for the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute in Lanzhou.
New NASA photographs taken by satellite show Central Asia'
once-vibrant Aral Sea shrinking to levels possibly not seen in
centuries. The images taken in August by the Terra satellite
show that the sea's eastern basin, on the border of Uzbekistan and
Kazakhstan, completely empty, the first time in modern times, said
Philip Micklin, a well-known geographer and professor emeritus of
Western Michigan University and an Aral Sea expert.
The Konya Basin’s aquifers have dried out, Forestry and Water Affairs
Minister Veysel Eroğlu said in a written statement July 30, as the
country has experienced one of the most arid winters and springs in
recent years.
The basin, which is also used to irrigate the
Central Anatolian Konya’s lowlands, the largest in the country, has
formally entered a hydrological drought, said Eroğlu responding to
parliamentary questions.